General Motors says it wants to lead EV sales in North America by 2025, and vows that its new Ultium battery platform will drive that dominance. But what makes GM’s EV battery and motor technology different... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 weeks 3 days ago • 388 views • 14:13

Droughts in Italy's river Po Delta in the northern region of the country is affecting farmers and their crops as the climate emergency ravages Europe. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports.

posted by newtboy 2 weeks 6 days ago • 47 views • 3:20

Jul 12, 2022 Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., gave a closing statement on July 12 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public. The focus of the hearing was on extremist... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 weeks 6 days ago • 76 views • 4:25

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified before the Jan. 6 committee that she overheard former President Donald Trump saying that he did not care if... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 month 1 week ago • 322 views • 9:11

“Most of us can’t imagine what it will be like when the whole ocean system collapses,” says Colin Angus, CTO and cofounder Open Ocean Robotics, a tech startup that makes autonomous boats. The... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 months ago • 295 views • 8:44

"I’m vaccinated. I’m boosted. And I still got infected with the omicron variant of COVID-19. Here’s what I learned, and what it means for the possible end of this pandemic. References and sources:... continue reading

posted by ant 6 months 2 weeks ago • 105 views • 17:55

Instead of shipping food all around the world, imagine your own food coming from your farm in a shipping container, just outside your backdoor. That’s the vision of FarmPod, a St. Croix-based startup... continue reading

posted by newtboy 9 months ago • 18 views • 6:56

US Women's Soccer Equal Pay Claims vs Facts. Court says they got paid more than the Men

posted by bobknight33 1 year 1 month ago • 7 views • 14:20

"The idea came to me in a dream I had this morning. I didn't really like how the classic Sesame Street "Ladybug's Picnic" song (a staple from my childhood) was performed on the new stop-motion version... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 1 month ago • 24 views • 57 secs

After women complain about a biological man walking around naked in the women's locker room, the employees say the person is transgender and there's nothing they can do about it.

posted by bobknight33 1 year 1 month 1 week ago • 940 views • 3:45

The multiverse hypothesis or theory holds that a group of multiple universes (possibly infinite universes) comprise everything that exists: The entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and... continue reading

posted by BSR 1 year 2 months 1 week ago • 143 views • 10:03

A lot of people are saying they’re regretting voting for trump... I can see why.

posted by newtboy 1 year 12 months ago • 628 views • 1:01

An important announcement from the most Presidential actor of our time.

posted by newtboy 2 years 1 month ago • 23 views • 1:13

"Ricky Gervais tests his knowledge of British slang. From 'dishy' to 'cheesed off,' the comedian takes you through some 'bog-standard' British words and phrases..." From http://www.cannotunsee.net/post/618953626171375... continue reading

posted by ant 2 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 16 views • 6:59

Writing in the Geophysical Research Letters, NASA says a review of Voyager 2’s old data from 1986 showed that Uranus vented a giant blob of gas into space. This pocket of ionized gas, a plasma structure... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 3 months 1 week ago • 1,110 views • 6:40

Scientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. More: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVG8wptOOI https://youtu.be/XLI7VtjgOyk ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 169 views • 57 secs

A recent study had a lot of negative things to say about diet sodas, but how seriously should we take that study? Observational research can be powerful and useful, but it can also lead to shaky outcomes.... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 512 views • 6:17

I just don't trust these things, and this clever attack isn't helping things any.

posted by moonsammy 2 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 352 views • 18:57

As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. (via digg.com)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 8 months ago • 1,016 views • 7:10